Nursing Homes in Oakland, MD
3 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 3
 Dennett Road Manor Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1113 Mary Drive, Oakland, Maryland 21550 Ratings: Phone: (301) 334-8700 |
Oakland Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 706 East Alder Street, Oakland, Maryland 21550 Ratings: Phone: (301) 334-2319 |
Garrett County Subacute Unit Medicare and Medicaid Location: 251 North Fourth Street, Oakland, Maryland 21550 Ratings: Phone: (301) 533-4220 |
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Bloomberg examines the effects of the global financial crisis and a resulting stall in development aid for global health programs, writing, "Governments struggling to curb deficits from Spain to the U.S. have cut or slowed the growth of their contributions to the World Health Organization and disease-fighting funds that prop up health services in the world's poorest countries, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research unit at the University of Washington in Seattle."
The medical homes model is spreading
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Nursing Home
A nursing home (also called skilled nursing facility) is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living.A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.
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